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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Light in the Cellar: A Molly Mystery
Sarah Masters Buckey · 169 pages
While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
The Romeo And Juliet Code
Phoebe Stone
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
Party Shoes
Noel Streatfeild · 294 pages
Set during and after the second World War, this classic novel tells the story of Selina, who has been sent to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the country. When Selina receives a parcel from her godmother in America it causes much excitement among her and her cousins, and, to Selina's delight, the parcel contains a beautiful party dress and a pair of party shoes. But delight turns to dism
Wolf Hollow
Lauren Wolk · 291 pages
Even Annabelle's small Pennsylvania town has been touched by the two world wars that ravaged the world, but day to day life there has been quiet until the day a new student, Betty Glengarry, comes to her school. Betty is cruel and delights in bullying the vulnerable people around her — including reclusive World War I veteran Toby. Annabelle knows that Toby is kind, but the other people in town see
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Nyul Choi · 170 pages
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japanese military occupying Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to destroy everything of value to the family, but he cannot break their spirit
The Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson · 398 pages
The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen · 170 pages
Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage a
Journey to America
Sonia Levitin · 185 pages
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united.
Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation
Yoshiko Uchida, Yushiko Uchida · 149 pages
Amazing book! Yuki a Japanese little girl who has an amazing life until one day Yuki and other California Japanese Americans get sent to internment camps
The Disappearing Stranger
Lois Walfrid Johnson · 144 pages
When her mother marries Mr. Nordstrom, Kate moves to a farm in northwest Wisconsin, solves a mystery, and learns to adjust to her new stepfamily.
Stolen Child
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch · 154 pages
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Megan Shepherd
The Lily Pond
Annika Thor · 220 pages
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
When My Name Was Keoko
Linda Sue Park · 199 pages
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Sylvia & Aki
Winifred Conkling · 151 pages
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Paper Wishes
Lois Sepahban · 192 pages
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr · 64 pages
Back Home
Michelle Magorian · 375 pages
Sent to America from England at age seven to escape war-torn England, Rusty returns five years later to go to a strict English boarding school and renew her relationship with her family, who now seem like strangers to her.
The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton · 852 pages
In a bucolic English summer at the end of the 1960s, a young girl witnesses a shocking crime. Fifty years later, she sets out to find out the truth, uncovering layers of mystery and deception. Moving from London during the Blitz to the present day, this is classic Kate Morton: a compulsively-readable, entrancing mystery with a long held secret to be uncovered at its heart.
Hitler's Daughter
Jackie French · 136 pages
The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler's daughter really exist? And If you were Hitler's daughter, would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do things that happened a long time ago still matter?
Shadows on the Sea
Joan Hiatt Harlow · 256 pages
Beholding Bee
Kimberly Newton Fusco · 336 pages
In 1942, when life turns sour at the carnival that has always been her home, eleven-year-old Bee takes her dog, Peabody, and piglet, Cordelia, and sets out to find a real home, aided by two women only Bee and her pets can see.